The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins.
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I may sometimes be willing to teach for nothing, but if paid at all, I shall never do a man's work for less than a man's pay.Clara Barton
. . . the door that nobody else will go in at, seems always to swing open widely for me.
Clara Barton
It is wise statesmanship which suggests that in time of peace we must prepare for war, and it is no less a wise benevolence that makes preparation in the hour of peace for assuaging the ills that are sure to accompany war.
Clara Barton
Economy, prudence, and a simple life are the sure masters of need, and will often accomplish that which, their opposites, with a fortune at hand, will fail to do.
Clara Barton
I have lived my life, well and ill, always less well than I wanted it to be but it is, as it is, and as it has been so small a thing, to have had so much about it.
Clara Barton
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Erich von Stroheim
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